وال

Derived from the active participle of وَلِيَ (waliya, “to administer, to govern”).

• IPA^(key): /waː.lin/

وَالٍ • (wālin) m (construct state وَالِي (wālī), plural وُلَاة (wulāh))

1. wali, regent, governor, prefect of a province (وِلَايَة (wilāya))

• → English: wali
• → Persian: والی (vâli)
  • → Tajik: воли (vol-i)
• → Hausa: wali
  • → Yoruba: wòlíì
• → Indonesian: wali
• → Kurdish: walî
• → Ottoman Turkish: والی (vali)
  • → Turkish: vali
  • → Georgian: ვალი (vali)
  • → Laz: ვალი (vali)
  • → Romanian: valiu
• → Tatar: вали (wali)
• → Uyghur: ۋالى (wali)
• → Uzbek: voli

وَالِ • (wāli) (form III) /waː.li/

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of وَالَى (wālā)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “وال”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

• اوال (avâl), افال (afâl) (obsolete)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *(s)káras, from Proto-Iranian *(s)káras, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos. Compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀 (kara, “kind of fish”).

وال • (vâl) (plural وال‌ها (vâl-hâ))

1. whale
2. sperm whale

• → Ottoman Turkish: وال (val)

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮 (vāla), from Sanskrit वाल (vā́la). Cognate with Gujarati વાળ (vāḷ).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /ʋäːɭᵊ/

واࣇ • (vāḷ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਵਾਲ਼ or ਵਾਲ)

1. hair

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “وال”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “وال”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vā́la”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 674

Inherited from Sanskrit वाल (vāla)

• IPA^(key): /vaːl/

وال (vāl) m

1. hair